Africa
Already more than double the 2017 business From the numbers we collected at the end of June, the LNG market has already awarded in 2018 twice more business than the entire 2017 year. At the beginging of the year our market analysis was already promising a boom for 2018 and the figures extracted from www.projectsmartexplorer.com data […]
Oil and Gas and Petrochemical market is booming. On the first quarter 2018, we have seen nearly as much business opportunities awarded than in the entire year 2017. This market upturn is led by the national oil companies (NOCs) and the Independent companies representing 96% of the projects sanctioned on Q1 2018 while the international oil companies (IOCs) nearly disappeared at 6%.
Quantum selected Ibeno for world-scale methanol plant The Nigerian Quantum Petrochemical Company Limited (Quantum) has decided to invest $1.5 billion capital expenditure in a world-scale petrochemical and methanol complex at Ibeno in the Akwa Ibom State of the southern Nigeria on the Gulf of Guinea. Quantum was recently founded by the Nigeria banker Jim Ovia, ranked […]
China Key projects and business highlights 2014 If China growth domestic product (GDP) slowed down these last years, it remains twice higher than world average and it maintains its top position as the country with the largest energy consumption. In 2014, China is passing USA to become the world largest net importer of liquid fuels. […]
GGOEX to monetize Nigerian gas with Gulf Methanol The local Junior company Gulf of Guinea Oil Exploration Limited (GGOEX) is investigating all opportunities to monetize natural gas in Nigeria through its purposely established subsidiary Gulf of Guinea Methanol Limited (GGML) to develop a world-scale methanol plant in the Niger Delta. At the end of 2012, […]
Petrofac contracted as Block R Development Operator The London-based junior company Ophir Energy plc (Ophir) has appointed the engineering company Petrofac from UK, to support them for the development of the natural gas reserves held in the Block R, offshore Equatorial Guinea on the west coast of Africa. While listed in UK with main operations […]
Maire Tecnimont achieves FEED work on Al-Sejeel After awarding Al-Sejeel front end engineering and design (FEED) work to Maire Tecnimont, the national companies Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) are aligning the engineering companies willing to bid for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Al-Sejeel petrochemical project in Ras Laffan […]
